Each had a different notion about the way
we had come. While we were moving forward, our combined efforts to walk
straight ahead made it impossible for one to turn and go in an opposite
direction, but in the few moments of our excitement as we turned and
twisted in clawing for the loop where Edith had been tied, we became
bewildered. We didn't know in which direction to turn in searching for
the lost one!
"What'll we do?" cried the Professor. "Do something! Quick! Find her!
Find her!"
I took a great breath and yelled her name into the darkness. The sound
thundered through the place like the noise made by a freight train.
Again and again I screamed it, and the million devils in the place
shrieked the name in mockery. I exhausted myself in my mad efforts to
send my voice to her ears.
Holman gripped my arm when I had worked myself into an insane frenzy,
and he begged me to be quiet.
"Barbara thought she heard an answer," he cried. "Listen! There it is
again!"
It was Edith! Her voice came to us like a thread of silver, and with no
thought of the bottomless crevices that might be in our path, we charged
blindly toward the spot from which her cry had come.
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